CHENGDU, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) — Swimmers from Team China bagged three golds and one bronze on the ongoing Chengdu Universiade right here on Friday as Olympic champion Li Bingjie confirmed her dominance in freestyle.
In the ladies’s 1,500m freestyle closing, Li, the Fukuoka world championships bronze medalist of the occasion, was in a category of her personal as she swam 16 minutes 18.48 seconds for the title.
“When I was competing at the 1,500m freestyle, I have saved my strength for the following relay competition,” Li instructed Xinhua.
In the halfway of girls’s 4x200m freestyle relay, China solely ranked third, trailing quickly chief South Africa by 1.72 seconds. Olympic gold medalist Zhang Yufei saved chasing and turned the sport round within the third leg. Li helped the host win the occasion in seven minutes 58.77 seconds.
The United States completed the second in 8:02.28 and Japan got here third after clocking 8:04.29.
“We had normal performance today, I was under a little bit pressure in relay, however, I am satisfied with the result,” Li mentioned.
Chinese breaststroke specialist Qin Haiyang received males’s 200m breaststroke title in two minutes 8.90 seconds. What’s extra, he turned the occasion’s newly-promoted FISU document holder.
In males’s 200m fly closing, Terada Takumi of Japan completed first in a single minute and 55.66 seconds, beating Wang Kuan-hung of Chinese Taipei (1:55.69) and Chen Juner of Team China (1:56.16).
“I have to improve my training quality in future. However, I have saved no efforts today,” Chen mentioned.
In the opposite three finals on Friday, Anita Gastaldi of Italy received girls’s 200m IM in two minutes 12.74 seconds, Poland’s Adela Piskorska touched first in a single minute 0.20 seconds at girls’s 100m backstroke and Simone Stefani of Italy received males’s 50m backstroke in 24.98.